As debate over the sustainability of the menhaden fishery in the Chesapeake Bay continues between the fishing industry and ...

WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESS Newswire / October 24, 2025 / The Menhaden Fisheries Coalition today welcomed a newly funded Science ...

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation urges regulators to "follow the science" and cut menhaden harvests to protect the Bay’s ...

Recreational fishing industry leaders are calling on President Trump to limit industrial fishing of forage fish, such as menhaden. Forage fish, also called bait fish, serve as food for other species.

The largest commercial fishing industry in the Gulf of Mexico is accidentally killing and discarding more than 22,000 redfish annually in Louisiana waters, according to an independent study released ...

Louisiana’s working coast has long depended on the Gulf menhaden fishery - a sustainable industry that supports more than 2,000 jobs, contributes $419 million annually, generates $25 million in state ...

A menhaden pulled from the Chesapeake Bay in the area of Jordan Point Marina. (Photo by Charlie Paullin/Virginia Mercury) A board that oversees the management of critical forage fish menhaden along ...

With summer in full swing, Chesapeake Bay fishermen, birders and environmentalists are once again faced with the harsh reality that menhaden, the most important fish in the sea, are scarce. Even Omega ...

Conservationists have been sounding the alarm for years over the lackluster breeding seasons for osprey along the Chesapeake ...

Osprey birds in the Chesapeake Bay area are not reproducing at numbers high enough to sustain the population, according to a press release from William & Mary's Center for Conservation Biology.